Founding anniversary of Vietnam People’s Army marked in Algeria

Delegates at the ceremony marking the 74th founding anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army in Algiers (Source: VNA)

Algiers (VNA) – Vietnam’s Embassy and Defence Attaché Office in
Algeria held a ceremony in Algiers on December 16 to mark the 74th founding anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) (December 22).

Representatives from the Algerian Defence Ministry
and diplomatic corps in Algeria, as well as foreign defence and military
attachés in the country attended the event.

Speaking at the event, Defence Attaché
Colonel Duong Duc Thuan recalled the heroic tradition of the VPA in the past
struggle for national liberation and its building of a regular, elite and
modern army to safeguard the country’s independence, sovereignty and
territorial integrity at present.

Thuan said that implementing the Vietnamese
Party and State’s foreign policy, the VPA always wants to consolidate and
develop its traditional friendship and cooperation with the armies of Algeria
and other nations.

Vietnamese Ambassador Pham Quoc Tru
underlined the fine relations between the two countries in general and the two
armies in particular, especially the mutual support in their past struggles for
national liberation and current national building and development.-VNA